these
are my
insecurities

thomas patrick levy

You are so smart, like bacon breakfast, like a breaking-knuckles bumper sticker, a hand grenade made from my bony hands. You see when I am alone. All alone you see. I am at the table eating the most wonderful coq au vin I’ve ever eaten. Sometimes this moment is the best moment so far. Sometimes it is the only moment I’ve ever known and even sitting inside El Pollo Loco I can’t help but taste Rooster-Red Wine. I can’t help but giving the cashier hell for no reason at all. Everything’s wrong, everything is the noise of a car alarm.